Triple

T3241844
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Louisbourg (1745) E67980 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Pepperrell
William Pepperrell was a colonial American merchant, landowner, and military leader best known for leading New England forces to capture the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War.
E339607 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: William Pepperrell | Statement: [Siege of Louisbourg (1745), commander, William Pepperrell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pepperrell
Context triple: [Siege of Louisbourg (1745), commander, William Pepperrell]
  • A. William Shirley
    William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
  • B. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • C. Esek Hopkins
    Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Edward Cornwallis
    Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
  • E. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: William Pepperrell
Triple: [Siege of Louisbourg (1745), commander, William Pepperrell]
Generated description
William Pepperrell was a colonial American merchant, landowner, and military leader best known for leading New England forces to capture the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pepperrell
Target entity description: William Pepperrell was a colonial American merchant, landowner, and military leader best known for leading New England forces to capture the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War.
  • A. William Shirley
    William Shirley was an 18th-century British colonial administrator best known for his role as governor of Massachusetts during King George’s War and the early stages of the French and Indian War.
  • B. William Coddington
    William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • C. Esek Hopkins
    Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Edward Cornwallis
    Edward Cornwallis was an 18th-century British military officer and colonial administrator best known for establishing British rule in Nova Scotia and serving as the first governor of Halifax.
  • E. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaef76d908190815bb456e366ee0a completed March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b27757dff0819081a26aea52ede49d completed March 12, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b27846372c8190a5c96158bf2a5ff2 completed March 12, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2791ac4a08190a1cee3cfbca6e6d6 completed March 12, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.